The second FEI Eventing World Championship was organised in 1970 at the Punchestown racecourse in County Kildare, Ireland. It gathered 40 athletes from eight nations.
According to the FEI rules in force at the time, the country of the team champions became the host nation four years later.
The event was organised at the historical Punchestown racecourse, located near Dublin, which had hosted its first races – the Kildare and National Hunt Steeplechases Races – in 1861. Notoriously, the first day of the 1868 meeting attracted only one spectator. The venue remains to this day the home of the Punchestown Festival, an extremely popular racing meeting.
The Endurance phase consisted of four phases – the final roads and tracks having been omitted – instead of five as had been the case in Burghley (GBR) four years earlier.
The reigning European champion Mary Gordon-Watson (GBR) and the extraordinary galloper Cornishman V were crowned world champions with a huge margin (+51.05) ahead of fellow Briton Richard Meade on The Poacher (-12.85), who was awarded the silver, as had been the case four years earlier. Individual bronze went to James Wofford (USA) on Kilkenny.
As in 1966, only two teams finished with at least three riders. Team gold went to Great Britain whereas France took silver.
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